What Did the Superintendent of the Census Announce in 1890

question 74

Multiple Choice

What did the superintendent of the census announce in 1890?

• A) a frontier line was no longer discernable
• B) more Americans lived in the West than the East
• C) the frontier line had expanded
• D) gold rushes in the West had tripled the population
• E) Buffalo outnumbered people in Montana

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Definitions:

Turner

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Categorization

The cognitive process of organizing information by placing it into categories based on common features or characteristics.

Group Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize dispositional or personality-based explanations for the behavior of individuals in a group, while underestimating the role of external factors.

Stereotyped Thinking

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